Sidney Dancoff | |
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| Born | September 27, 1913 |
| Died | August 15, 1951 (aged 37) |
| Alma mater | University of California at Berkeley |
| Known for | Tamm–Dancoff approximation |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Three problems in quantum mechanics (1939) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Doctoral students | Sidney Drell |
Sidney Michael Dancoff (September 27, 1913 in Philadelphia – August 15, 1951 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED).